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A Nicholson man was recently released from Athens Regional Medical Center after he was stabbed.

Authorities said they then arrested him on charges stemming from an attack on his wife at their Nicholson home.

“We thought neither one of them would survive,” Jackson County Sheriff Janis Mangum said Monday of the domestic assault.

The attack occurred July 29 at the couple’s home on Ivy Creek Drive, where deputies responded to a 911 call and found the woman in the yard with serious cuts to her neck and hand, according to the sheriff’s report.

Deputies found the suspect, Sean Michael Anthony McCarthy, on the porch with cuts to his neck and abdomen, deputies said. Investigators recovered a kitchen knife at the home, the sheriff said.

“It was a domestic altercation. He cut her and she got the knife and cut him,” Mangum said.

There were five children in the house and they fled out a window to the next door neighbor’s house, where 911 was called, she said.

McCarthy, 36, is charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and five counts of cruelty to children. McCarthy’s wife will not be charged, the sheriff said.

The Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the Jackson County Department of Family and Children Services in placing the children with family members.

McCarthy’s wife has been released from the hospital, but is staying at an undisclosed location for her safety, Mangum said.